Time to own up to mets

Hi pink sisters

I feel like it’s time to own up to my stage 4 liver Mets that I was diagnosed with 12 months ago

I can’t say I’ve been paddling in that Egyptian river.... de-Nile.... denial (get it? :smile: ) but I have been avoiding owning up to it. I guess I’ve been wishing it’s all just a bad dream... alas!

Here it is: I was diagnosed in Sept 2010 with early triple positive with only one mode involved... oh yeah and I was 25 weeks pregnant.

Mastectomy, 15 months chemo.. 3 with a baby on board - then 6 weeks rads and then two reconstruction surgeries all with a newborn and a 2 and 4 year old.

A blissful 7.5 years on Tamoxifen with the knowledge that I was completely cured... until Feb last year.

My liver was full of it... not your normal solid tumors but a spiders web like covering of the liver.

Lots more chemo with which I did not enjoy during liver failure... ended up in hospital each time but almost unbelievably I can say I’m NED for 6 months! Crazy crazy times!

So that’s my Mets story but I’m much more than that!

I’m a full time mumma to three. I’m slowly working my way through a history research degree. I love sewing, bushwalking, talking to random strangers, tracing my family tree and chocolate (more than most things!).

So I just popped in to say hello and that i plan on hanging around here for a long time if that’s okay.

I’m currently enjoying herceptin and perjetta every three weeks and hope to be for a long time to come.

Kim :)